{"id":2396621,"date":"2025-01-29T15:21:01","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T20:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/heres-how-the-media-are-lying-right-now-fake-chaos-edition\/"},"modified":"2025-01-29T15:23:59","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T20:23:59","slug":"heres-how-the-media-are-lying-right-now-fake-chaos-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/heres-how-the-media-are-lying-right-now-fake-chaos-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s How The Media Are Lying Right Now: Fake &#8216;Chaos&#8217; Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fheres-how-the-media-are-lying-right-now-fake-chaos-edition%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2396621&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article,authored by Eddie Scarry for The Federalist,discusses the media&#8217;s exaggerated portrayal of chaos following Donald Trump&#8217;s recent directive to pause\u200d federal spending. scarry argues that despite media headlines suggesting widespread turmoil, the\u200d reality\u200d is that the directive mainly\u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-presidential-candidate-vivek-ramaswamy-sues-doj-over-trump-indictment\/\" title=\"Vivek Ramaswamy, GOP candidate, sues DOJ for Trump indictment.\">requires\u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gov-whitmer-media-caught-in-another-lie-anarchist-arrested-for-plot-to-kidnap-and-kill-whitmer-hates-president-trump-trump-is-a-tyrant-video\/\" title=\"Gov. Whitmer, Media Caught in Another Lie - Anarchist Arrested For Plot to Kidnap and Kill Whitmer Hates President Trump, &#039;Trump is a Tyrant&#039; (VIDEO)\">federal agencies<\/a><\/a> to \u200dassess their spending without considerably impacting day-to-day \u2064life for moast citizens.He points\u2064 out that much of the perceived chaos stems from \u2062media confusion and miscommunication, rather than any real disruption. Scarry\u2062 highlights that\u200d the management&#8217;s \u200cintent is\u200d to scrutinize federal expenditures and <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">potentially cut\u200b unneeded spending<\/a>,a concept\u200d he claims should not be branded as chaos but rather as necessary oversight. The piece concludes by noting that while some may feel uncomfortable due to increased \u200cscrutiny\u2064 of government procedures, this\u2064 should not be viewed as chaotic.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-body body-md bdr-top-black pt-30\">\n<div class=\"row justify-content-center\">\n<div class=\"col-12\">\n<figure class=\"article-thumbnail mb-30 mb-sm-60\">\n<div class=\"article-thumbnail-caption d-flex align-items-center justify-content-md-end label-xs mt-15\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-camera me-10\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Image Credit<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9nvzMOG3-N8&amp;list=RDNS9nvzMOG3-N8&amp;start_radio=1\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC\/YouTube<\/a>       <\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"article-share text-center article-share-simple\">\n<h5 class=\"label-sm mb-10\">Share<\/h5>\n<ul class=\"article-share-list list-unstyled m-0 p-0\">\n<li class=\"article-share-facebook m-0\">       <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/01\/29\/heres-how-the-media-are-lying-right-now-fake-chaos-edition\/\" target=\"_blank\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-facebook\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Share Article on Facebook<\/span>       <\/a>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-twitter m-0\">       <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Here%E2%80%99s%20How%20The%20Media%20Are%20Lying%20Right%20Now:%20Fake%20%E2%80%98Chaos%E2%80%99%20Edition&amp;url=https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/01\/29\/heres-how-the-media-are-lying-right-now-fake-chaos-edition\/\" target=\"_blank\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-twitter\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Share Article on Twitter<\/span>       <\/a>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-truth-social m-0\">       <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/share?title=Here%E2%80%99s%20How%20The%20Media%20Are%20Lying%20Right%20Now:%20Fake%20%E2%80%98Chaos%E2%80%99%20Edition&amp;url=https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/01\/29\/heres-how-the-media-are-lying-right-now-fake-chaos-edition\/\" target=\"_blank\">         <svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" fill=\"currentColor\" style=\"width:36px;height:auto;\" viewbox=\"0 0 92 93\"><path d=\"M69.444 55.716H56.772v10.37h12.672zM64.487 37.795V27.32H38.666v38.664h13.18v-28.19zM21.05 27.321h12.653v10.471H21.051z\" https:><\/path><\/svg>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Share Article on Truth Social<\/span>       <\/a>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-link m-0\">       <button data-clipboard-text=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/01\/29\/heres-how-the-media-are-lying-right-now-fake-chaos-edition\/\" data-tooltip-content=\"Copied!\" class=\"clip tooltip\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-link-variant\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Copy Article Link<\/span>       <\/button>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-email m-0\">       <a href=\"mailto:?subject=Here%E2%80%99s%20How%20The%20Media%20Are%20Lying%20Right%20Now:%20Fake%20%E2%80%98Chaos%E2%80%99%20Edition&amp;body=%20https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/01\/29\/heres-how-the-media-are-lying-right-now-fake-chaos-edition\/\" target=\"_blank\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-email\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Share Article via Email<\/span>       <\/a>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-email m-0\"><span class=\"printfriendly pf-button  pf-alignleft\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\" rel=\"nofollow\" onclick=\"window.print(); return false;\" title=\"Printer Friendly, PDF &amp; Email\"><span id=\"printfriendly-text2\" class=\"pf-button-text\"><i class=\"mdi mdi-printer\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<p>After having already lived through a Trump presidency, Americans who aren&rsquo;t hopelessly insane should recall a pattern: Donald Trump does something of little or no discernible consequence to your day-to-day life and the media react by screaming about the &ldquo;chaos.&rdquo; Yeah, that hasn&rsquo;t changed.<\/p>\n<p>Headlines spanning from Tuesday to Wednesday this week include:<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2 d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-236699975\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1463670073398-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&ldquo;Trump Freezes Trillions. Chaos Ensues.&rdquo; &mdash;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/29\/podcasts\/the-daily\/trump-freeze-chaos-grants-loans.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Federal judge blocks Trump federal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/inside-rand-pauls-plan-to-balance-the-federal-budget-in-5-years\/\" title=\"Inside Rand Paul\u2019s Plan To Balance The Federal Budget In 5 Years\">spending freeze<\/a> after a day of chaos&rdquo; &mdash; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/2025\/01\/28\/trump-spending-freeze-upends-washington-triggering-legal-threats-delays\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Washington Post<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Trump aid freeze stirs chaos before it is blocked in court&rdquo; &mdash; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/trump-orders-pause-all-federal-grants-loans-2025-01-28\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Reuters<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Trump&rsquo;s spending freeze spreads chaos across US&rdquo; &mdash;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/01\/28\/chaos-confusion-trump-order-freeze-federal-dollars-00201079\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Politico<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&rsquo;m confident that precisely zero people reading this right now lost a moment&rsquo;s sleep as a result of Trump directing federal agencies to pause spending and produce reports detailing the projects and services they&rsquo;re paying for. A few of you might have never slept better.<\/p>\n<p>To the extent there was any disturbance from the orders at all, it arose because the news media apparently didn&rsquo;t read the memo summarizing them. Reporters in Washington asked over and over again on cable news and at the White House press briefing on Tuesday whether programs like Social Security, Medicare, and food assistance would be affected. The directive in fact <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2025\/01\/27\/us\/omb-memo.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">stated<\/a>, &ldquo;Nothing in this memo should be construed to impact Medicare or Social Security benefits.&rdquo; It also said more broadly that the temporary pause on &ldquo;Federal financial assistance&rdquo; excludes &ldquo;assistance provided directly to individuals.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>There are of course many people leading federal agencies who are either unwilling or incapable of doing anything that deviates from simply green-lighting the flow of taxpayer dollars no matter where it&rsquo;s going, so there were reports of agencies left unsure of how the guidance applied to them. But that&rsquo;s not chaos. That&rsquo;s called change. <\/p>\n<p>It turns out that this new administration is doing the unusual and taking an interest in what exactly the infinite number of federal agencies are doing all day. What are they spending money on and is any of it unnecessary? Duh, that&rsquo;s why they were told to account for it so that some of it &mdash;&nbsp;hopefully a lot of it &mdash;&nbsp;can be targeted for cuts.<\/p>\n<p>In any event, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sidney-powell-is-an-american-legal-giant\/\" title=\"Sidney Powell Is an American Legal Giant\">federal judge<\/a> in Washington put <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/2025\/01\/28\/trump-spending-freeze-upends-washington-triggering-legal-threats-delays\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a pause on the pause<\/a>, ruling that more time was needed to determine whether the spending freeze might inflict &ldquo;irreparable harm.&rdquo; (We could only hope.) And on Wednesday, the administration rescinded the memo altogether, perhaps to simply reissue a more detailed version that can be understood thoroughly by the ever-useful government workers. Either way, the fake panic over the fake chaos is sure to continue.<\/p>\n<p>A bureaucrat being instructed to do something &mdash; a concept known outside of government as &ldquo;work&rdquo; &mdash; may make Washington and the media a little uncomfortable. That&rsquo;s nice for a change, but it isn&rsquo;t chaos for anyone else.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">      Eddie Scarry is the D.C. columnist at The Federalist and author of &#8220;<a href=\"\/\/www.amazon.com\/Liberal-Misery-Hateful-Everything-Everyone\/dp\/1637584350\">Liberal Misery: How the Hateful Left Sucks Joy Out of Everything and Everyone<\/a>.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-author mt-30 mt-sm-60 pt-30 bdr-top-bold-black\">\n<div class=\"row g-0 align-items-center\">\n<div class=\"col-12 col-md-6\">\n<div class=\"article-author-profile d-flex align-items-center justify-content-center justify-content-md-start\">\n<div class=\"article-author-details\">\n<div class=\"label-md\">Eddie Scarry<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-author-twitter label-sm d-flex align-items-center mt-10\">             <i class=\"mdi mdi-twitter me-5\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>             <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Visit on Twitter<\/span>            <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/eScarry\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"text-decoration-none\">@eScarry<\/a>           <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-12 col-md-6 d-flex justify-content-center justify-content-md-end mt-15 mt-md-0\">        <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/author\/eddiescarry\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">More Articles<\/a>     <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"article-tags bdr-top-black mt-30 mt-sm-60 pt-15 pt-md-45\">\n<ul class=\"list-unstyled d-flex flex-wrap align-items-center mb-0 mx-n10 p-0\">\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/corporate-media\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">corporate media<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Donald Trump<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/executive-orders\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">executive orders<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/media\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Media<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/medicare\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Medicare<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/social-security\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Social Security<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After experiencing a Trump presidency, rational Americans should recognize a trend: Trump takes actions that have minimal impact on daily life<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"featured_media":2396622,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Chuck-Schumer-1.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[7380,5441,34247,5157,4188],"class_list":["post-2396621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-misinformation","tag-chaos","tag-fake-news","tag-journalism","tag-media"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Chuck-Schumer-1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2396621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2396621"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2396621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2396625,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2396621\/revisions\/2396625"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2396622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2396621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2396621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2396621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}